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2022-06-14 09:00:03 Dead Poets Society (1989)

It describes how Mr Keating both in and out of the classroom encouraged Neil Perry to follow his obsession with acting... when he knew all along it was against the explicit orders... of Neil's parents. Open / Comment

2022-06-14 09:00:02 Explicit, adjective.

/ɪkˈsplɪsɪt/

Definition: Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.

Examples:

1. The arrangement had not been made explicit.
2. To ensure consistency, several definitions were made explicit before data entry began.
3. The methodologies employed are not only made explicit, but discussed in some detail, albeit at times anecdotally.
4. At least one has even made explicit reference to the use of nuclear bombs, albeit as a retaliatory measure.
5. A narrative is implied, but never made explicit.
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2022-06-13 23:00:36 Have you already used the Telegram's folders feature? Open / Comment

2022-06-13 20:00:01 Be just what the doctor ordered, phrase.

Definition (informal): Be very beneficial or desirable under the circumstances.

Examples:

1. A 2–0 victory is just what the doctor ordered.
2. A media-savvy leader with a vision, with seriousness of purpose, with honesty and decisiveness as his strongest points, a diplomat par excellence, he is exactly what the doctor ordered.
3. The style is apparently a cross between ancient tragedy and TV news, which sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered for a sultry summer weeknight.
4. Meantime, let's just say that London is exactly what the doctor ordered - in other words, I am very happy to be here.
5. I know killer heels aren't exactly what the doctor ordered, but I'll take the psychological boost any day.
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2022-06-13 16:00:06 Volplane, noun.

/ˈvɒlpleɪn/

Definition (Aeronautics): A controlled dive or downward flight at a steep angle, especially by an aeroplane with the engine shut off.

Examples:

1. In 1891 the engineer Otto Lilienthal executed the first safe and repeatable volplanes in history.
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2022-06-13 09:00:01 The Foreigner (2017)

They're trying to divide us, put the Brits back on the streets again, stir up the troubles all over again. Open / Comment

2022-06-13 09:00:01 Stir up, phrasal verb.

Definition (stir something up, stir up something): Cause or provoke trouble or bad feeling.

Examples:

1. He accused me of trying to stir up trouble.
2. The rumours had stirred up his anger.
3. We both laughed nervously and he told me that he had heard that some Asian youths in Leeds had been stirring things up by deliberately leaving rucksacks on buses.
4. A brewery is stirring up a touch of controversy in the Yorkshire Dales - with an advertising campaign declaring that ‘drinking is folly’.
5. "They have been stirring up chaos in Hong Kong and at the same time they want to change the mainland's political system.
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2022-06-12 20:00:00 Come off it, phrase.

Definition (British • informal • in imperative): Said when vigorously expressing disbelief.

Examples:

1. ‘Come off it, he'll know that's a lie.’
2. Indeed, she claims that there is an unspoken English rule that she calls ‘the importance of not being earnest’, along with a peculiarly English injunction to say, ‘Oh, come off it!’
3. Come off it, that's not something ‘worth remembering’.
4. My honest (and admittedly, somewhat cruel) reaction is ‘Oh, come off it, you're not that special.’
5. ‘Oh come off it, mate,’ he said, because he is not only a hawk, but has a keen and impatient mind.
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2022-06-12 16:00:03 Inamorata, noun.

Definition: A person's female lover.

Examples:

1. His new inamorata is a twenty-two-year-old mannequin named Jennifer.
2. However he kept the flame burning bright writing passionate love letters to his inamorata.
3. Predictably, in the main duet for the lovers, the young man alternately draws his inamorata to him, molding her as if she were clay in his hands, and swings her outward in sapling-in-spring shapes.
4. Then they'll see that their inamoratas cannot remain faithful.
5. But her main role would be as Hirschfeld's muse and playmate, his elfin inamorata, the one editor to whom he paid devoted attention.
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2022-06-12 09:00:04 Listless, adjective.

/ˈlɪs(t)ləs/

Definition: (of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm.

Examples:

1. Bouts of listless depression.
2. On Sunday, they were listless throughout and the two goal winning margin is a flattering one from their perspective.
3. I was listless, too sick and weak to say much of anything to defend myself.
4. She was listless, helpless, but not suicidal, and used cocaine sporadically.
5. After seemingly endless weeks of constant commotion, they appear listless and lethargic.
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